Fall Convocation is Friday, August 25, 2006 at 10:30 a.m. on Red Square

Dr. Kevin Brothers

A celebration of the opening of the academic year, Fall Convocation provides an opportunity to recognize the achievements of incoming freshmen and other students, and to encourage all to reflect on the meaning of a college education. It's an exciting chance to see many SU faculty march in academic regalia and, for most first year students, the first taste of pomp and circumstance!

You are starting a new chapter in your life. This may be the first time you're away from home, away from your friends and family. The next few years hold wonderful experiences and very few people are fortunate enough to ever get such an opportunity. Dr. Kevin Brothers

With this opportunity to realize your potential and pursue your dreams comes the burden of responsibility and self reliance. Convocation recognizes your commitment to excellence thus far in your scholastic career, and the University takes this time to welcome you formally to the friendly Salisbury University community.

Fall Convocation takes place Friday, August 25, at 10:30 a.m. on Red Square. The guest speaker will be Kevin Brothers, Ph.D.

Dr. Brothers is the founding Executive Director of the Somerset Hills Learning Institute, a private non-profit education and treatment program for children with autism. Dr. Brothers earned his doctorate in Developmental and Child psychology from the University of Kansas in 1999.

For more than 20 years, he has delivered science-based behavior-analytic services in both public and private schools to toddlers, children, adolescents, and adults with autism and their families. Under Dr. Brothers’ leadership, the mission of the institute is to graduate students, whether to traditional educational settings or to the workplace, as independent and productive citizens. Dr. Brothers has helped achieve these outcomes for many people with autism over the course of his career.

His featured address is one more aspect of the 2006 New Student Reader selection, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, by Mark Haddon. The novel tells tells the story of a young man with autism and his quest to solve a mystery in his own neighborhood.

Immediately following the Convocation ceremony, lunch will be served for faculty and students in the Quad from 11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.

In the event of rain, Fall Convocation will be held inside Maggs Gym and lunch will be held at the Commons.

 

ALSO ON AUGUST 25:

Prior to Convocation, there will be Small Group Discussions for the New Student Reader from 9-10 a.m.

Following lunch on the Quad, the four schools will hold First Year Open Houses from 1:30-2:30 p.m. for all majors as well as undeclared first year students.

These Open Houses will provide an opportunity for first year students to become acquainted with the faculty and advisors in their school/department prior to the start of fall classes. Critical information will be shared about success strategies for major courses, areas of specialization, the role of the advisor and more. ATTENDANCE IS MANDATORY.

 

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